Posted on 03/21/2016 5:40:49 AM PDT by PJBankard
Hello everyone- what an election eh?
Just got home after an exhaustive day-
Yesterday (Monday) I spent 11 hours at Trump HQ’s in Phoenix, AZ., making phone calls in a Get Out The Vote process. What that entails is basically making phone calls nonstop... and reading from a script in order to encourage voters to go vote for Trump.
The way things work, is if one has a laptop, you bring it to the call center. The managers get your name, e-mail address, and phone number (from you) and register it to a software program named Callfire. Once that is done, a head set is linked physically to your cell phone. Your laptop is linked to Callfire, then Callfire contacts your phone. The phone is answered, completing the link between your phone and your laptop. Then- a prompt on your laptop directs you to start dialing numbers. One by one, numbers come up on your laptop screen... some are not answered, and some are- either by someone live, or by the customary tools of a recorded message.
Depending on the protocol- either a message is left by the volunteer caller reading a script, or- by clicking on a hot link button named Smart Drop, and a pre-recorded message is activated, and left with the intended caller on what ever device is being used by the voter. This frees up the volunteer to continue placing additional calls.
Other outcomes or dispositions-
are owed to being-
a technical issue (dropped call)
wrong number,
completed call,
hung up,
or-
left voice message.
There is a dialog box for entering Notes, and once the Disposition is selected, and any Notes are entered- then the caller clicks on a function button marked- Save. Once Save is selected... another call is spun up for the caller to deal with. There is also a Hang Up function, that ends a call and initiates the next one. Either wireless phone service or landlines were contacted, driven primarily by time of day. The call center was capable of supporting approximately 24 volunteers at any one time, and in a slow period, may only have 6 callers engaged in getting out the vote. The goal might be to contact 5,000 voters, by way of phoning them, and there may be as many as 45 callers, or as few as 6, working together on the same goal.
I went by my precinct on the way in to volunteer today, and found so many voters standing in line- that there was at least a two hour wait to vote. I had an early ballot that I had not mailed in, needing to be delivered, so I elected to travel to the next closest polling location. That location was just as packed, so I made the decision to just walk to the front of the line and enter the building so that I could hand off the ballot to election officials. I took all of 15 seconds to complete the task.
The call center had dozens of I-Pads for use, in the event a volunteer showed up without a laptop. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner was provided. Bottled water and coffee was available as well.
Yard signs, stickers, window placards, and bumper stickers were available for the taking, with a steady stream of volunteers stopping by for campaign supplies.
The staff were from the Trump campaigns in Louisiana, and Nevada.
I am fading fast, so I’m posting this, and will add to it tomorrow. Good night everyone.
Thanks for the explanation, and double and triple thanks for your hard work.
I am sure your efforts and those of others like you helped in yesterday’s stunning results in AZ, and more so, helped to solidify support for Trump in the general election in November.
Tan jacket man was the “minder”—he was there to make sure the two others got into their position before detonation.
He wasn’t going to die with the two patsys.
I had a fleeting thought that maybe brothers thought they were just going to leave the carts unattended, and tan jacket man went around the corner and detonated them.
Quelle surprise!
Two bombers were brothers. They just picked up the third. He had a chemical engineering degree
More bombing expected at soft targets. As many as fifty suicide bombers came into Europe recently
Appears Jeb! is going to endorse Cruz today.
CRUZ IS and has been the establishment candidate
They cheated big time and Trump just exposed how far they will go. This war with Soros, this is going to be a hell of an election! Trump Train!
Utah the whole nation is watching.
Utah is Soros country!
yeap and he is trying to steal our country. Soros will be behind Hillary too. It is a long time till Nov....
Those polygamists really love Teddy and Glenn !
Good morning all!
I don’t normally listen to Savage, but he seems to be pro-Trump. Interview with Trump yesterday on this thread re Brussels and a few other things:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412451/posts
Heard on the news, they’re now reporting the person in custody is not the third person seen at the airport. Not sure exactly who he is, though.
May be up to five more involved in this incident.
Two brothers were just Gang thugs not religious zealots
Good morning, everybody. Ashamed to have fallen asleep last night but had been up since 4 in the morning. Elated about Arizona, it looks like a lot of shenanigans in Utah as per this article. Now we will have to hear SaintTed spew more lies as he basks in his righteous glory.
https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/1068
good morning back at you!!!
I’m at front desk hotel. Moderately busy but just here til 11. At 2 going to see 10 Commandments — remastered at Cinemark. 4 hours. Will have intermission pretty sure.
Anyone - do I understand both Trump & Kasich got zero votes in Utah and Cruz got all?
I am glad we won Arizona but frankly I thought we would hammer Cruz more than we did.
Any presser’s scheduled?
Ted was on F&F earlier - didn’t listen to him and had to change the channel. I used to listen to his speeches and really liked him but now cannot handle him.
Haven’t read anything about any pressers but our Donald will be on Lou Dobbs on the Fox Biz Channel tonight - 7 p.m. Eastern.
Have a great day, Dolly!
Yes, zero for Cruz and Kasich, Trump won 58 winning 47.1% of the votes.
I am missing the rallies!!! Will have to watch an old one just to get my fix.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing!
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